Nine people were shot and injured — including two critically — after being caught in the crossfire when a gun battle erupted between two men on touristy Bourbon Street in New Orleans’ celebrated French Quarter, police said.
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A man set himself on fire at Tokyo’s busy Shinjuku railway station on Sunday in what appears to be a rare violent political protest.
Two New York men are suing the New Jersey Lottery after they threw out a Powerball ticket worth $1 million.
The chain-link fence surrounding the former fire station of the Granite Mountain Hotshots became a massive memorial in the days and weeks after 19 of them died a year ago in northern Arizona.
The father of the young man who killed six people and injured 13 others near the University of California, Santa Barbara, last month says it’s his “duty” to help prevent future mass killings.
Mexican law enforcement on Thursday crossed into Arizona by helicopter and fired two shots at U.S. border agents, a union spokesman said.
A Mexican man is in custody for allegedly trying to smuggle 4 1/2 pounds of methamphetamine into Arizona in an accordion.
Russia’s foreign minister on Saturday accused the United States of encouraging Ukraine to challenge Moscow and heavily weighing in on the European Union.
A Type II incident management team, the second-highest level available, took charge of the fire Friday because of the continuous sources of fuel ahead.
Frank Sinatra’s first New Jersey driver’s license has sold for $15,757 at auction.
The Golden Gate Bridge moved a big step closer to getting a suicide barrier after bridge officials on Friday approved a $76 million funding package for a net system that would prevent people from jumping to their deaths.
Police in Turlock, Calif., said on Friday they found a family of four dead inside a home in what appeared to be a murder-suicide.
A former police officer in Wisconsin is suspected in the deaths of two women found stuffed in suitcases along a rural Wisconsin highway.
A tea party official charged with conspiring to take photos of U.S. Sen. Thad Cochran’s wife inside a nursing home apparently committed suicide Friday, police said, days after Cochran won a nasty Republican primary.
A defense attorney well known in his small, southern Kentucky town was shot and killed outside of his law office early Friday, police said.
